Exhibitions

Eyewitness Views: Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe

On Artsmia.org:

“In the 1700s, historical events and sights were documented by view painters.

Commissioned by princes, popes, and ambassadors, such artists recorded memorable moments first hand, ranging from the Venetian carnival to an eruption of Vesuvius. This first-ever exhibition on the golden age of view-painting includes over 50 scenes of historic events. Turning the beholder into an eyewitness, these paintings, many never seen before in America, bring the spectacle of the past to life. Features key works from leading view painters, including Canaletto, Bellotto, Robert, Panini, and Guardi.”

Preliminary checklist for Eyewitness Views:

Eyewitness Views Checklist_11316 prelim list

Here are the final labels for Eyewitness Views, file dated 09.06.17:

EV_final labels_09.06.17

Here are the final panels:

Eyewitness Views final Panels

Here are the final subpanels, file dated 09.06.17:

EV_final subpanels_09.06.17

Here is the final transcript from the audio guide:

Transcript Eyewitness Views_Final audio guide

This is the teacher guide, posted on Artsmia.org’s exhibition page:

Eyewitness Views_TeacherGuide

Fact sheet from Curatorial Affairs:

Eyewitness Views Fact Sheet 8-1-17

This is a resource document, with modern images of Venice and other events, as well as pertinent articles and videos. If you would like to add any resources, please email them to Kara (kzumbahlen@artsmia.org) and she’ll update the document.

Resources for Eyewitness Views 09.12.17

The slides from Peter Bjorn Kerber’s lecture will be posted when received. Here are the notes from the lecture, shared by your colleague Josie Owens:

Eyewitness News lecture notes 2

From your colleague Shelly McGinnis, some information on Spain’s monarchy:

Spain’s monarchy

More information on Panini and his workshop:

Biography of Panini and On Ruins and Prophecy

Here is a map of the exhibition:

Eyewitness Views gallery layout

Pronunciation guide for Italian names and terms:

Italian Names and Terms PDF

Here is an article and video about the Palio in Siena:

The Palio in Siena

Americas Galleries Rotations, June 2017

Tobie Miller has shared these rotation documents with you so everyone can prepare for the changes in the Americas Galleries. With the gallery construction beginning on May 24, Gallery 261 will be impacted right away, with objects deinstalled in the south wall cases.

According to Tobie, “The rotation is happening during the month of June, but we never know how registration will start so any piece could move throughout the month. Additionally, the South wall cases in 261 will be deinstalled next week for construction of the doorway between 261 and 262 and we will be heading right into the rotation.

The spreadsheets attached are broken down by gallery and install/deinstall.
These are not complete because Jill is currently working with members of the Cherokee and Dakhota communities to curate two cases – one being the Dakhota case on the north wall of 259 and the other being interpretation of the Rauschenberg going into 261 south wall case (currently the Arctic). As well, Andrea Carlson is guest curating the case that juts out from the wall in 259 and that list is attached.”
As additional information comes in, it will be posted. Please note that some objects are merely being moved (e.g., Arctic objects, from 261 to 260) and reinstalled in another gallery, so look through all documents. (G261a, The Frank Big Bear collage will be deinstalled after June 20th.)
Here are the documents from Tobie:

Guillermo del Toro

Gallery map of Del Toro exhibition:

Del Toro Gallery Map

Interview with del Toro, Death Is the Curator:

Interview with Del Toro Death is the Curator

Del Toro Panels:

All Del toro Panel Text

Del Toro Fact Sheet:

Del Toro Fact Sheet

Mia objects in Del Toro exhibition:

Mia objects in Guillermo del Toro

Link to a short video:

Pan’s Labyrinth: Disobedient Fairy Tale

Fact Sheet on exhibition, including thematic focus of each gallery (p. 5):

Visitor Exp Vol GDT Info

Mia stories, interview with Del Toro on the exhibition:

5 Quotes from Guillermo del Toro

Here is a link to the 2011 New Yorker story on Guillermo del Toro. This story inspired Kaywin Feldman to arrange our current exhibition, and it gives great biographical background, useful for a tour:

Show the Monster

Here is a video of a 2013 interview with Charlie Rose:

Cabinet of Curiosities

This is a video interview at LACMA:

Video interview LACMA

This is a 2015 NYT story on his collection at Bleak House:

Guillermo del Toro’s House of Horrors

This is a general Wikipedia article on Del Toro. At the end are links to articles on each of his films, and those articles give synopses of the film plots:

Wikipedia article

Star Tribune article on the opening of the exhibition:

Horror Master Guillermo del Toro

Check out this annotated bibliography on Del Toro, by Kate Pehrson, a former Mia employee who writes about films for Southern MN Scene:

GDT biblio Pehrson

From your colleague Terry Edam, two suggestions for photo props to use with grade school groups, “to help them understand his feelings for monsters that kids are more familiar with (because they haven’t seen the movies)”:

Photo prop Monsters Inc AND Photo prop Nightmare in the Closet

From your colleague Joy Yoshikawa, a photo prop that “can be used in conjunction with the deteriorating state of Jesus Gris in the movie Cronos.”

Francis Bacon

 

Material Girls: Living in the First Material World

Here are the labels and wall panels for the new exhibition in the Cargill Gallery (G103).

Material Girls_Panels and Labels

The exhibition runs January 15 to April 16, 2017. Here is the description of it, on artsmia.org:

Conceived of by Mia Director and President Kaywin Feldman, this small exhibition will illuminate three prehistoric fertility figures held in Mia’s permanent collection. Historically referred to as “Venus figurines,” the featured objects serve as a catalyst by which to examine the implications of their historic and contemporary interpretation through a gendered lens.

Die Neuen Wilden: Neo-Expressionism in Germany

This exhibition runs September 24, 2016 – June 11, 2017 in Galleries 315 and 316. Here is a link to the information on artsmia.org:

Die Neuen Wilden

From Docent Susan Rouse, an interview with curator Dennis Jon, Senior Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings is within the attached document, which is “intended to simply provide a broad overview of information and gallery organization as highlighted by the exhibition coordinator.”

die-neuen-wilden-prints

 

Martin Luther

Below is the Luther research resource document. This document will be updated weekly with shared resources from and for the docents touring the exhibition.

luther-research-resources

Links to the Luther training videos are available. Just type “Luther videos” in the search box and the results will pull up the links.

Junior docent Janelle Christensen has kindly shared her electronic notes for the two exhibition lectures by Tom Rassieur:

luther-i-and-ii-lecture-notes

Here is a list of the catalog objects that are only in the Mia exhibition, tied to the gallery numbers as determined from the gallery map. The gallery map is now posted in the guide lounge. Note there are some objects not yet identified with the gallery number as they were not discernible on the map. The list will be updated after the galleries open:

exhibition-catalog-to-gallery

Here’s the updated transcript of the audioguide (added Oct 28, 2016):

final-audioguide-transcript-for-vms

Here is the fact sheet on the exhibition:

docent-luther-fact-sheet

Here are the Luther labels:

gallery1 Large Print with Images

gallery2 Large Print with Images

gallery3 Large Print with Images

gallery4 Large Print with Images 

gallery5 Large Print with Images

gallery6 Large Print with Images

gallery7 Large Print with Images

gallery8 Large Print with Images

luther_deck_labels_all

luther_wall_labels_all

Here are the Luther panels:

lutherpanels_v1

Resources recommended by the Interfaith advisory group:

referencesforlutherwebsite

Attached are the Luther touring logistics for the lead docent, including logistics chart, developed by Lynn Dunlap and Rose Stanley-Gilbert, with comments from Debbi:

lead-logistics-for-luther AND logistics-of-tour-chart

Here is a link to a 30-minute tour Tom Rassieur did, posted on the Mia Facebook page:

Mini-tour of exhibition, posted on Facebook

Listening device instructions, for Luther exhibition:

listening-devices

German pronunciation guide:

german-pron-guide-2-pdf